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"Philosophy returns whenever the old answers stop working."

"Not since Sordello, Browning’s famously obscure and incomprehensible epic poem, had the echt Browning obscurity manifested itself so gloriously." —Adam Roberts via

"The Navajo, I have heard, bring a medicine to their people with painting done with sand. Part of the healing is scattering the art to the wind afterwards. “Forsaking the proximity” of theology in order to find shelter in a religion as art I wonder if we might imagine together what such a sand painting with our own particles and pigments might sound like on our tongue."

      "the black cake icing"

dregs tarrying · vague drottkvaett
   tiltdecantative noondim
awhile yet off now · wharf mistlost
   repurposed paper towels
   in the antelucan midrash
two jewels suspend · against spider velvet

"Once we accept that being offline is off the table for most, this is where 'analog' quietly steps in as a substitute, the dupe we can actually afford. And just like all dupes, it is only the appearance of the real thing, stripped of its substance."